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August 1992

Volume 45, Issue 8

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New Opportunities at Soft‐X‐Ray Wavelengths

David Attwood
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Advances in synchrotron radiation, x‐ray lasers and x‐ray optics permit new studies in the life and physical sciences at spatial resolutions of hundreds of angstroms.

Women in Physics: Reversing the Exclusion

Mary Fehrs and Roman Czujko
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Commitment and deliberate action by both institutions and individuals are necessary to rectify the conditions that now turn women away from physics careers.

The Future of Solid‐State Electronics

Robert W. Keyes
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For three decodes most measures of the performance of digital electronics have been improving exponentially. What limits are in sight?
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Do Low‐Level Radiation Health Data Justify Fear or Contribute To Phobia?

Karl Z. Morgan and John Cameron
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Teller, Wood: Silent on Goldin to Quayle

Edward Teller and Lowell Wood
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‘Brilliant Eyes’ Not Part of NASA Asteroid Work

David Morrison
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Superdeformed Nuclei's Nativity

Robert Vandenbosch
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‘The Starry Night’ Illuminated

Charles A. Whitney
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Is Science Made Too ‘Magical’ to Children?

Leon Thomsen, Eric D. Marshall, and Katherine R. McKenna
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Why Johnny and Janey Can't Think

David M. Hartley
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The German Minds Behind Russia's Bomb

Igor Fodor
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Speakers: Learn to Project (Slides, that is)

Ben Zuckerman
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Gallex Data Can't Quite Lay the Solar Neutrino Problem to Rest

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Listen—Really Really Listen: Troubleshooting Student Confusion

Henry Gurr
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Physics of Climate

José P. Peixoto, Abraham H. Oort, Curt Covey, Reviewer, and Karl Taylor, Reviewer
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More Surprises in Theoretical Physics

Rudolf Peierls and Edwin E. Salpeter, Reviewer
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Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices Displacement Current, and Light

Daniel M. Siegel and Bruce J. Hunt, Reviewer
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Quantum Electrodynamics

T. Kinoshita and Stanley J. Brodsky, Reviewer
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Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945–1975

Brian Balogh and Alvin M. Weinberg, Reviewer
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Physics: Imagination and Reality

P. R. Wallace and Robert H. March, Reviewer
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Weak Chaos and Quasi‐Regular Patterns

G. M. Zaslavsky, R. Z. Sagdeev, D. A. Usikov, A. A. Chernikov, and C. Eugene Wayne, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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National Medals of Science Given to 1992's Honorees

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OSA Awards Acknowledge Achivements in Optics

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New Members of National Academies Named for 1992

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Isadore Perlman

Glenn T. Seaborg
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Harlan J. Smith

Thomas G. Barnes, III, Frank N. Bash, James N. Douglas, William H. Jefferys, and J. Craig Wheeler
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Amulya L. Laskar

Malcolm Skove
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Adrianus Jan Van Woerkom

Raynor L. Duncombe and Morris S. Davis
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Wallace A. Hilton

Charles D. Geilker
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Conversation with NSF's Walter Massey: Leaner Times, Meaner Times for Science

Irwin Goodwin
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What's Gone Wrong with the SSC? It's Political, Not Technological

Irwin Goodwin
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2100 Physicists Use a Democratic Process for the SSC

Irwin Goodwin
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